Bounty (Ship)

LC control no.	n 81034924
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Bounty (Ship) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bethia (Ship : -1787) Bertha (Ship : -1787) H.M.S. Bounty (Ship) HMS Bounty (Ship) HMAV Bounty (Ship)
Beginning date	1787-05-26
Located	Great Britain
Field of activity	Navies
Found in	Bligh, W. A voyage to ... 1792. The mutiny on board H.M.S. Bounty, 1789, 1981. Mutiny on board HMS Bounty, 2014: p.xi (on 26th May 1787, the Royal Navy buys the collier Bertha, refitting her and renaming the ship HMS Bounty) D'Eon, Geoff. Bounty, 2018: page 17 (originally christened as the Bethia; commissioned by the Royal Navy on August 17, 1787, as His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty (HMAV), rather than His Majesty's Ship (HMS) Bounty) Wikipedia, viewed on January 21, 2020 ("HMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was a small merchant vessel that the Royal Navy purchased for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to British possessions in the West Indies. That mission was never completed owing to a mutiny led by acting lieutenant Fletcher Christian. This incident is now popularly known as the mutiny on the Bounty. The mutineers later burned Bounty while she was moored at Pitcairn Island. An American adventurer rediscovered the remains of the Bounty in 1957; various parts of it have been salvaged since then."; "Bounty was originally the collier Bethia, built in 1784 at the Blaydes shipyard in Hull, Yorkshire in England. The Royal Navy purchased her for £1,950 on 23 May 1787 (equivalent to £209,000 in 2016), refit, and renamed her Bounty. The ship was relatively small at 215 tons, but had three masts and was full-rigged. After conversion for the breadfruit expedition, she was equipped with four 4-pounder (1.8 kg) cannon and ten swivel guns.")
Equivalent(s)	Bounty (Ship)
National bib agency no.	1032A1887E
Associated language	eng
Quality code	nlc